The article discusses the unsettling trend among progressives, particularly Democrats, as they grapple with figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic appointed as Secretary of Health and Human Services. This nomination highlights a dramatic ideological shift, revealing a conflict within the party's traditional values of science and reason. Once regarded as a respected environmental figure, Kennedy now embodies the crucial concerns about anti-intellectualism and conspiracy thinking that threaten liberal principles, prompting a reevaluation of their stance towards expertise and scientific consensus.
To Elizabeth Warren, Kennedy was an 'anti-science conspiracy peddler.' Vaccines, 9/11, 5G networks, pasteurization, fluoride, AIDS, lab leaks, electoral theft, assassinationsâ'he's nuts on a lot of fronts,' the New York Post's editorial board concluded.
Even here, he had an idiosyncratic (and impeccably Kennedyesque) explanation. 'I went skiing with Buzz Aldrin every year,' he said. 'I knew the astronauts.'
Liberals stand for science. The G.O.P. stands for drinking bleach, freaking out about Satanist pedophiles, and blaming wildfires on Jewish space lasers.
Despite his reputation as a respected environmental advocate, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has shifted towards skepticism about established scientific consensus, raising alarm among traditional progressives.
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